Lessons on Living from Joshua IT'S A MYSTERY TO ME

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JOSHUA 6:3-5
"You shall march around the city; all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This
you shall do six days. . . . But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times and
the priests shall blow the trumpets. Then it shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with
the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a
great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat."
In speaking of things beyond our understanding, the famous orator and statesman William
Jennings Bryan declared, "I have observed the power of the water melon seed. It has the power
of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight.
When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond
the imitation of art, and then forms inside of it a white rind and within that again a red heart,
thickly inlaid with black seeds … when you can explain to me the mystery of a watermelon, you
can ask me to explain the mystery of God."
Joshua was faced with the mystery of God as well. Upon hearing the plan given by God, surely
someone must have asked him, "How will marching around a wall, blowing trumpets and
shouting knock down that wall?" Certainly it was beyond understanding. But the mysteries of
God usually are.
Divine mysteries abound. We don't understand how a child could be conceived without a father,
but it happened (Luke 1:34).We can't comprehend how an infinite God could be housed in a
finite human body, but He was (Col. 1:15).
It’s, beyond our comprehension that one man's death could pay for the sins of the world, but it
did (Rom. 5:18). We don't understand, but that's Okay. God's mysteries are not for us to explain;
they are for us to accept by faith and act upon. If you're struggling to understand a mystery of
God, don't trouble yourself real issue is not whether you understand; it's whether you are willing
to obey.
FAITH OBEYS WHEN EXPLANATIONS ARE LACKING.